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<p>In response to many requests to feature more business-to-business (B2B) content at our events, next month's <a href="http://www.forrester.com/Forresters+Customer+Experience+Forum+2012+West/-/E-EVE4399">Outside In: A Forum For Customer Experience Professionals</a> will feature several B2B keynote presenters, including Randy Pond, EVP of operations, processes, and systems at Cisco Systems. In preparation for the event, I caught up with Randy to talk about his keynote and the importance of championing the voice of the customer at Cisco. Check out a preview of Randy's session in the below Q&amp;A, or join me in <a href="http://www.forrester.com/Forresters+Customer+Experience+Forum+2012+West/-/E-EVE4399">Los Angeles, November 14th to 15th, </a>to hear Cisco's full story.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What gets in the way of delivering the right experience to your customers?</strong></p>
<p>First, in some areas, I believe we lack consistent policy and practices in the business that we can inspect, enforce, and govern. It's a combination of the legacy of our entrepreneurial spirit, drive to market, and speed to market. The second is related to the fact that we have a regular influx of acquired companies that we have to embed into our offering, scale into the marketplace, and turn loose to our customers. This can get us into trouble when we may not have the same sense of urgency when we release products. As well, there is a big push on the sales team to get new products moving and out to customers and a big pull from our customer base to get these new offerings in the marketplace. And that stretches our ability to make them as effective and easy to use as we would like. </p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/moira_dorsey/12-10-29-qa_with_randy_pond_evp_operations_processes_and_systems_cisco_systems" title="Read the rest of &#039;Q&amp;amp;A With Randy Pond, EVP, Operations, Processes, And Systems, Cisco Systems&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_75 first"><a href="/category/cisco" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Cisco</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/moira_dorsey/12-10-29-qa_with_randy_pond_evp_operations_processes_and_systems_cisco_systems#commentsCiscoCisco SystemsCustomer ExperienceCustomer Experience ForumOutside InRandy PondMon, 29 Oct 2012 19:38:17 +0000Moira Dorsey8439 at http://blogs.forrester.com